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To: csvset

F.S. is what we say. It just stands for “French Ship”.

The French navy do not use prefixes like “USS”, “HMS”, “HMCS” and so on...


17 posted on 05/02/2010 6:09:59 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9

Ours just stands for United States Ship, like unto French Ship.

UK vessels are “Her Majesty’s Ship”, I think.


18 posted on 05/02/2010 2:48:03 PM PDT by Ole Okie
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